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17th May 2022 at 12:22 PM
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Maybe Kalux, DeeDee or someone else who tends to make similar clothes for various ages can give you some pointers on the age conversion scale question? I have seen some discussions on the matter, but it's been a while and Google isn't helpful today.
For the few conversions I've done (mostly baby conversions, occasionally toddler/child), I've extracted the naked body of whichever gender/age I'm converting and fitted it roughly around that, so it's not too big/small anywhere and looks fairly decent (and delete the extra body later). I use the resizing buttons in Milkshape, for x/y/z and just eyeball it as best as I can, varying which side/angle I'm resizing, trying to keep shapes roughly the same so round things stay round and patterns don't stretch the wrong way and all that.
It's common to use the male frame if you're converting to children/toddlers (to avoid the breast area), of course if possible depending on which clothes you're converting - you will have to make the shoulders less prominent, adjust the legs/arms a bit so they aren't so thin.
If you want skin to be visible (hands/legs/neckline/etc.), it can be an idea to cut&paste from the proper age/gender, especially for hands, so the animations are proper.
The neckline and other areas can be edited to fit with the head and/or other body parts, that shouldn't be too big of an issue.
Toddler to older ages might be a bit more difficult than older ages to toddler, because I think they have a bit less polys to work with, and the textures are 512x512 (original TS2 outfits and most CC not from TS3/4) so they'll usually look a bit more grainy (probably need to be scaled up).
You also have the issue of breasts if you're converting child/toddler to teen female and up, because there's not enough geometry to get a smooth enough shape, so it's going to be a bit rough.
And a few tips at the end - make sure you don't import extra skeletons if importing more than one mesh into Milkshape, because this will cause havoc in your files, and turn off autosmooth or you get sharp edges everywhere!